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Step 6Adding FaceTracking
To take Mimbo to the next level you need have him to track your face and mimic your facial expressions.
Fortunately a lot of the really complex facial tracking problems have been solved for us already. Yay open source! :)
FaceOSC is a pretty simple application (unfortunately OSX 10.6 only) that tracks your face using your webcam and sends OSC messages to a specified port. We can then either read-in these messages directly in processing (on a new incoming port) or re-route them through a program like Osculator to our standard incoming port in Processing. The benefit of routing them through Osculator is that you can very quickly plot whatever signal you want and figure out it's range of values.
Now it's simply a matter of mapping facial expressions (ie. mouth width, eyebrow height) to Mimbo's expressions.
Fortunately a lot of the really complex facial tracking problems have been solved for us already. Yay open source! :)
FaceOSC is a pretty simple application (unfortunately OSX 10.6 only) that tracks your face using your webcam and sends OSC messages to a specified port. We can then either read-in these messages directly in processing (on a new incoming port) or re-route them through a program like Osculator to our standard incoming port in Processing. The benefit of routing them through Osculator is that you can very quickly plot whatever signal you want and figure out it's range of values.
Now it's simply a matter of mapping facial expressions (ie. mouth width, eyebrow height) to Mimbo's expressions.
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